From: billy@irvine.com (*** Bouncer **)
Subject: Re: JV-80 (Thoughts on Roland JV80/880 (esp versus SQ1+)???)
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1993 20:55:28 GMT

>     Does anyone out there use a JV-80 or 880 that could give me their im-
>pressions?  I currently have an Ensoniq SQ1+ and was considering either
>getting an 880 and using the Ensoniq as the master controller, or selling/
>trading to a JV-80.  It got a pretty good review in KEYBOARD, but I'm not
>sure I'd want to part with the SQ-1+ yet ( it has a sequencer if nothing else)
>     I've only gotten to play on the 880 once and I seem to remember it had
>really good piano sounds.  Of course, the pianos on my SQ1+ aren't too bad
>themselves, but they still don't sound quite right to me.
>     So, does anyone have any thoughts on this, or thoughts of other competing
>keyboards with the best piano sounds you've ever heard?  Thanks for any mail.

   Well, I went to the NAMM show this weekend, and Roland has just introduced a
keyboard that will do exactly what you need.  Its called the JV1000.  Basically
it is a JV880 synth engine (expandable to 14 meg of rom), a 76 keyboard,
extensive master controlling capabilities, plus a 40,000 note sequencer and
3.5" disk drive.  I was told the list price is about $2700.

-- Billy

From: little@cs.ucsd.edu (Glenn Little)
Subject: Re: Opinions on Roland's JV-80?
Date: 16 Jun 93 18:37:30 GMT

In article <C8ow9v.AHM@irvine.com>, billy@irvine.com (*** Bouncer **) writes:
|> 
|> for sending MIDI continuous controllers, however the JV-80 is 61 keys, the
|> JV-1000 is 76.  Depending on if you already have a sequencer (either computer
|> or hardware based), the additional sequencer and disk drive of the JV-1000
|> might not be worth the extra $$$ to you. They both accept the same cartridges
|> and PCM samples, so I suppose they both sonically sound the same.  However,
|> the JV-1000 allows you to have up to 56(?) note polyphony through a plug-in
|> expansion card (similiar to the way a JD-990 can be expanded polyphonically).

  If I'm not mistaken, the only way to expand polyphony on the JV-1000
  is to add a General Midi board.  So it's not really adding polyphony
  to what's there, but adding another mini-synth intead.  So you still
  can't have a nice 56(or 28, layered) voice piano.  Bummer.  And Roland
  voice stealing seems kind of sucky to me, at least in piano-playing
  mode.  

  Anyone else notice this?  The stealing seems to be strictly
  oldest-note.  So, If I hit a bass note and let it sustain while
  playing even one treble note repeatedly, eventually the 30 (only 15,
  when using the layered piano) copies of the treble note will steal 
  the bass note.  

		-glenn